Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin, making a convincing case for what many in scientific fields are loath to considerthat it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain. Beauregard and O'Leary explore recent attempts to locate a "God gene" in some of us and claims that our brains are "hardwired" for religioneven the strange case of one neuroscientist who allegedly

I thought they meant the Council of Noetics...oh, no that was Dan Brown.

Memory is hazy because this topic is filed right next to memories of dorm room bullsessions and beer-drinking sessions. Having played about with hypnosis in college, the past-life regression “memories” are quite fascinating, even if they are nothing more than random stream-of-consiousness fabrications of the subconscious mind.

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posted on 02/23/2014 5:37:31 PM PST
by bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)

What's cool about it? Long before this idiot was a twinkle in his mother's eye, God gave us instructions about the reality of the soul. If you do a word search in the Bible you'd be amazed at what God has to say on the issue.

We don't need a someone with a degree in psycho-babble to instruct us.

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posted on 02/23/2014 5:38:43 PM PST
by Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)

The article does not show any scientific proof. There can not be, and will not be any scientific proof, unless you include the works of St Thomas of Aquinas under science. They are indeed science, but not under today’s interpretation of the word science.

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posted on 02/23/2014 5:51:43 PM PST
by I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)

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